Author: Doug Scott

THPSHD isn’t anything new. It’s concentrated nostalgia distributed for 1200 MSP ($15), and nostalgia is a hell of a drug. From the moment you load it up and the soundtrack hits your ears you’ll be back in ’99 at whatever age you were.

You have to be careful when watching a pre-rendered trailer for a game. On one hand, it looks totally awesome when a dude makes a flame whip out of thin air and devastates an entire army. On the other hand, the game will probably be nothing like that. We can’t say for sure, but as far as cool videos go, you can’t beat some dramatic music and a dragon made of smoke.

Listen up maggots, there won’t be any bug hunts this year because Sega’s Aliens: Colonial Marines has been pushed back from a late 2012 launch to early 2013. That means there won’t be any mech-loader fights, no thrums of the motion detector, and no threats of having an extra-terrestrial lay eggs in you via your pie-hole.

Tribes: Ascend follows a lot of norms that most shooters have, but overall, Tribes: Ascend is unlike any other shooter you have ever played. The predominant mechanic in Tribes is the combination of skiing and jetpacking. Most maps, whether they are arena or CTF will start you off on top of a hill. By holding down the space-bar, your character will enter a frictionless state known as skiing. There, they will slide down the hill and pick up enormous speed.

The indie game market has seen a splurge of content in the past few years. Where they were once restricted to flash sites that you were never sure had malware on them or not, they are now a force to be reckoned with. Between Steam, Xbox Live Arcade, the Playstation Network. and Wii/DSiWare, the one time flash game makers are now major figures in the video game industry.

After a haboob of massive proportions, Dubai rests in sandy ruins. Delta Force, led by Colonel Martin Walker, are sent to search for survivors after receiving a distress signal. Turns out the signal is a hoax. Dubai is in bad shape, it’s true, but the signals is being broadcasted by a group of rebels and army deserters.

As the commander, it is up to you to plot the route for your caravan. Some streets have more turrets. Some turrets can be easily defeated if you attack from a certain direction. It all comes down to risk versus reward. If you destroy more turrets, you’ll gain more money for upgrades and new units.

Loadout is an upcoming Free 2 Play game coming soon to PC from Edge of Reality. With a heavy emphasis on mayhem, and an absolute buttload of guns at your disposal, Loadout takes the arena shooter and amps it up.

The Sulaco, for the better part, has remained untouched since Ripley threw an Alien queen from the airlock. Bishop’s lower torso is still on the floor. That was quite the crowd-pleaser. The Marines need to collect the flight data of the ship, and find out what happened to the marine team that was sent in before them. Spoiler Alert: it was aliens.